Kingsbridge
Kingsbridge is a market town and also vacationer hub in the South Hams district of Devon, England, with a population of 6,116 at the 2011 census. Two selecting wards birth the name of Kingsbridge (East & North). Their mixed population at the above census was 4,381. It is located at the northern end of the Kingsbridge Estuary, a ria that encompasses the sea 6 miles southern of the community. It is the third largest negotiation in the South Hams as well as is 32 miles (51 km) south-southwest of Exeter. The community formed around a bridge which was built in or before the 10th century between the royal estates of Alvington, to the west, as well as Chillington, to the eastern, hence providing it the name of Kyngysbrygge ("King's bridge"). In 1219 the Abbot of Buckfast was granted the right to hold a market there, and by 1238 the negotiation had come to be a borough. The mansion remained in belongings of the abbot until the Dissolution of the Monasteries, when it was provided to Sir William Petre. Kingsbridge was never ever represented in Parliament or incorporated by charter, the local government being by a portreeve. It lay within the thousand of Stanborough.
